By Iain Cunningham, Graduate Student, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures It is not often that we are confronted by a genre of film that bears familiarity to us while maintaining its ability to instill contemplation, to appear to us as strange and novel. VOY is certainly such a film. Directed by… Read more »
Tag: Disability studies
Reflections on the RSW event “Promoting Inclusion and Appreciating Diversity in Today’s Russia: Global Trends and Local Realities”
By Dafna Rachok, PhD student in Anthropology It is not a secret that concepts travel through time and places and often get vernacularized and reshaped. To find out how the idea of inclusion is understood and employed in contemporary Russia, on April 16th, a panel of experts gathered to tackle the question of diversity and… Read more »
Phillips participates in Utopian Kruzhok, “Body, Technology, Environment: Disability Studies”
On August 29, Sarah Phillips, IU professor of anthropology and director of the Russian and East European Institute, was a guest of the online interactive Russian-language seminar Utopian Kruzhok, “Body, Technology, Environment: Disability Studies.” Created and led by Alexandra Kurlenkova, PhD student in Media, Culture and Communication at NYU, the Disability Studies “kruzhok” (circle) introduces participants from various… Read more »
Blog series on Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: Panel 3, Monitoring courts, police, and prisons
This is the third in a series of five blog entries from the “Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: The Life and Legacy of Lyudmila Alexeyeva,” which took place on November 15-16, 2019 on the campus of Indiana University—Bloomington. The blog entries were written by graduate students who come from a variety of disciplines at… Read more »
Impressions from the conference, “Without barriers 2.0: New approaches to the study of disability”
Written by Sofiya Korzhuk, Assistant in the Department of General Sociology, Faculty of Economics, Novosibirsk National Research State University; Junior Researcher, Social Problems Department, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Автор: Софья Коржук, ассистент кафедры общей социологии, экономический факультет, Новосибирский национальный исследовательский государственный университет; младший научный… Read more »
Reflections on the conference “Without barriers 2.0. New approaches to the study of disability”
Written by Anna Nikonova, Assistant in the Department of History, Philosophy and Sociology at Kazan State Medical University Автор: Анна Никонова, ассистент кафедры истории, философии и социологии, Казанский государственный медицинский университет Перед тем, как рассказать о своих впечатлениях о конференции «Без барьеров 2.0. Новые подходы к исследованию инвалидности», хочу рассказать короткую историю, которая отражает… Read more »